Sorry, there’s protests and we can’t protect you (especially if we turn our backs)?

7, easy spitball shooter

Affordable Care Act is mostly still there, but

• the tax penalty for choosing no coverage was struck down in court, so more people are making this choice
• several states refused federal money to cover lower income
• republicans re-opened the door to junk policies that don’t provide meaningful coverage

Also the current administration is trying to

• replace support for state Medicaid programs with block grants that can be used to squeeze the state’s, who will reduce coverage
• repeal important features of ACA, like no refusal of treatment for pre-existing conditions, 100% coverage of routine care including immunizations

The bit about a tax penalty for absence of coverage is a bit much, does the government really need to kick someone when they’re down?

This was struck down in court years ago.

The “stick” was to encourage people to get coverage ahead of time or face the penalty. If they decided not to, the extra tax could help cover unpaid ER visits where they must be treated whether or not they can pay.

The “carrot” At the same time was reduced price insurance based on your income and expanded Medicaid coverage for people who couldn’t afford anything. This was paid for by the federal government but Medicaid is administered by the state: several Repugnancan states refused the money because their politicians were so set against providing free medical care

After the tax “stick” was struck down, coverage dropped without that penalty, and states where they refused the money left millions of lesser paid people without coverage . So yeah, we needed it

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Holy shit, I want this presidential debate. I want to decide between these two parties.

Right, this article is based on a flawed premise

To preserve America’s financial primacy, Trump must offer the world compelling reasons to remain within the dollar-based system.

But to all appearances Trump wants the opposite. Ending this system helps reinforce the isolationism that he seems to want, brings more control and wealth to him since everything can be based on bullying, kickbacks and deals, enables corruption, and lets Trump get short term wins. He can brag to his followers that he’s done these things, and they’ll love it.

… the enormous soft power it currently gives us over global finances and trade, the ability to write endless debt, an era of worldwide economic stability will be gone forever. But those aren’t things he values nor can explain to his cult

Here’s another: my family has a traditional Easter breakfast featuring “cheese”. But this “cheese” is eggs.

I don’t see anything like it online in the brief time I looked, but I imagine I have to some how break free of search results only containing contemporary and sponsored links and I just don’t have the time now

From an engineer at one of the legacy car manufacturers, they don’t want CarPlay 2 because it has privacy controls. They don’t want to give up so much access to the car, then have to access it over Apple APIs limited by privacy controls

Waiting for Congress. Either republicans sycophants will ratify everything Trump has done, or it’s all elons fault

You can probably make that happen with yours. When our Toyota Sienna lost power in the doors we decided it was too old to invest that much money into them. It was much cheaper to cut away the cable and disconnect power so they operated just like any manual sliding door

Probably not the same animals that need to be controlled, but boar is delicious!

That’s a good one: a reference back to a famous quote to please the educated, crude humor to please the less civilized, memorable for all

It is though. UK birth rate is well below replacement level and immigration is not enough to make up for it.

The math may not be obvious because that is a decrease in births now, that will become apparent in about 30 years when they would have children and previous large generations pass. You can either try to compensate now when it’s easy or wait 30 years until it’s a crisis with no way out and even if there was, it would take 30+ years

I’m not sure where they expect the loss, but I’m sure it’s not regular people whose paychecks have taxes withheld, and who file their taxes without major fraud.

They’ll lose money off people like the mango Mussolini whose corporate shell game is so complex that he used to brag the IRS couldn’t afford to hire enough people to audit his taxes

There are some states that already do that and it’s invariably unfair

Let’s be unfair the other direction: keep the gas tax and add a registration tax for all vehicles. Then EVs don’t get out of paying for road wear and we’re still incenting the transition to EVs

Does California require annual inspections? Here they record your mileage - I think it has some effect on allowable emissions. So we already have a way of collecting mileage

The problem with your example is you could read it as cars cause effectively zero wear on roads, compared to a truck

Not allowed in the US. Sometimes this sort of protectionism works, but not while you’re destroying Tesla and legacy manufacturers are going back to gas. By the time Trump is out, the entire American car industry will no longer be able to compete in the global market.

Well yeah, but also legacy American car companies have backed away from EVs, so they’re not going to take it up. And Rivian needs a few more years to get to mass market so not them

American industry and jobs lose, but who wins?

• Hyundai?
• BYD?